Historical Rebuke Nears for Ottawa

By

Nirmala Menon

Updated March 22, 2011 12:01 a.m. ET

OTTAWA—A Canadian parliamentary committee recommended that the government be found in contempt of Parliament for not fully disclosing the cost of anticrime legislation, paving the way for a historic rebuke that could trigger a third national election in five years.

The committee report upheld a recent finding of breach of parliamentary privilege against the government by the speaker of the House of Commons, the lower house of...